7th grade US History Final Exam

Question 1

President to the ordinary people in 1828

Answer 1

Andrew Jackson

Question 2

Where was the Inauguration party

Answer 2

The White house

Question 3

Jackson criticized for:

Answer 3

Giving jobs to his supporters

Question 4

Person who led the fight for nullification

Answer 4

John C. Calhoun

Question 5

He resigned his job at the:

Answer 5

Vice president

Question 6

First state to threaten to leave the Union

Answer 6

South Carolina

Question 7

This person helped the North and South to reach a compromise

Answer 7

Henry Clay

Question 8

Bank of the US director

Answer 8

Nicholas Biddle

Question 9

Result in Jackson vetoing the bank

Answer 9

Huge inflation

Question 10

New political party in 1843:

Answer 10

The Whig party

Question 11

Won the election of 1836:

Answer 11

Martin Van Buren

Question 12

Won election of 1840:

Answer 12

William Henry Harrison

Question 13

Indians forced to move to:

Answer 13

Oklahoma

Question 14

How many Choctaw Indians died on the trip

Answer 14

25%

Question 15

Georgia Indians tried to adapt to American culture

Answer 15

Cherokee

Question 16

Where was gold discovered that the Indians were forced to move

Answer 16

Georgia

Question 17

Group of fighting Indians from Florida

Answer 17

Seminoles

Question 18

Where did mountain men trade goods?

Answer 18

Rendevous

Question 19

Average length of time to travel the Oregon trail

Answer 19

6 months

Question 20

Founded the Mormons

Answer 20

Joseph Smith

Question 21

President who wanted manifest destiny

Answer 21

James K. Polk

Question 22

Main issue in expansion

Answer 22

Slavery

Question 23

Became US territory in 1848

Answer 23

Oregon

Question 24

In border dispute, Mexico claimed this river as the border

Answer 24

Nuesces river

Question 25

US general who fought close to the Rio Grande

Answer 25

Zachary Taylor

Question 26

Where was the Bear Flag revolt?

Answer 26

California

Question 27

City captured than ended the Mexican War

Answer 27

Mexico City

Question 28

In the 1830's and 40's California mainly consisted of

Answer 28

Mexicans and Indians

Question 29

City grew rapidly with the Gold Rush

Answer 29

San Fransisco

Question 30

Group from Asia that came to America due to economic hardship

Answer 30

Chinese

Question 31

What made it possible to spin thread faster

Answer 31

The Water Frame

Question 32

Most factories would be built by

Answer 32

Rivers and streams

Question 33

Country ahead of others in manufacturing

Answer 33

Great Britain

Question 34

Memorized plans and brought them to the US

Answer 34

Samuel Slater

Question 35

Invented interchangeable parts

Answer 35

Eli Whitney

Question 36

Who did Francis Lowell hire

Answer 36

Young,unmarried women

Question 37

What made factory workers upset with immigrants

Answer 37

Immigrants worked for cheaper pay

Question 38

Developed to improve pay and working conditions

Answer 38

Unions

Question 39

Invented steam engine

Answer 39

Robert Fulton

Question 40

Mode of transportation very popular in the 1840's

Answer 40

Railroads

Question 41

Main transportation hub

Answer 41

Chicago

Question 42

Replaced wood as the main source of power

Answer 42

Coal

Question 43

Samuel Morse invented

Answer 43

The telegraph

Question 44

What replaced water powered factories

Answer 44

Steam powered factories

Question 45

Invented the steel plow

Answer 45

John Deere

Question 46

Staple crop of the South

Answer 46

Cotton

Question 47

Country became a huge trading partner for cotton

Answer 47

Great Britain

Question 48

These people controlled political life

Answer 48

Rich planters

Question 49

Most white southerners were

Answer 49

Small farmers

Question 50

People who made sure slaves worked hard

Answer 50

Slave drivers

Question 51

Common flooring in most slave cabins

Answer 51

Dirt

Question 52

Most important aspect of slave culture

Answer 52

Family

Question 53

Most slaves would sing

Answer 53

Spirituals

Question 54

What happened to slaves when they were caught trying to escape

Answer 54

Caught and punished

Question 55

What brought many immigrants from Ireland

Answer 55

Irish Potato Famine

Question 56

Germans came for

Answer 56

Religious freedom and economics

Question 57

Conflicts between these two groups

Answer 57

Catholics and Protestants

Question 58

Cities were developed because of

Answer 58

Industrial revolution and Transportation revolution

Question 59

Problems with living in the city

Answer 59

Lack of safe housing,criminal activity,fires

Question 60

Emerson wrote that:

Answer 60

You should follow your own beliefs

Question 61

Thoreau wrote about

Answer 61

Self reliance

Question 62

American Romanticism focused on

Answer 62

Interest in nature, individual expression, rejection of established rules

Question 63

Leader of 2nd Great Awakening

Answer 63

Charles Finney

Question 64

Social reformers spoke out against the evils of

Answer 64

Alcohol

Question 65

Man helped raised teacher salaries

Answer 65

Horace Mann

Question 66

First college to accept African Americans

Answer 66

Oberlin

Question 67

Country in Africa founded as a colony of freed slaves

Answer 67

Liberia

Question 68

Helped spread the word of abolishing slavery

Answer 68

Pamphlets,speaking tours, and newspapers

Question 69

Issue was avoided in the government in the 1840's

Answer 69

Slavery

Question 70

New land acquired after this war caused a big dispute over slavery

Answer 70

Mexican American war

Question 71

This state would shift the balance of power

Answer 71

California

Question 72

Compromise of 1850 drafted by

Answer 72

Henry Clay

Question 73

California would enter as a _______ state

Answer 73

Free

Question 74

With the fugitive slave act many slaves fled to

Answer 74

Canada

Question 75

The Democratic nominee in the election of 1852

Answer 75

Franklin Pierce

Question 76

The Whig nominee in the election of 1852

Answer 76

Winifield Scott

Question 77

Introduced the Kansas-Nebraska slave act

Answer 77

Stephen Douglas

Question 78

City in Kansas where people set fires and looted

Answer 78

Lawrence

Question 79

In Congress Brooks used this as a weapon

Answer 79

His Cane

Question 80

Party formed to unite against slavery

Answer 80

Republican

Question 81

Party disappeared after the election of 1852

Answer 81

Whig

Question 82

American Party nominee in the election of 1856

Answer 82

Millard Fillmore

Question 83

Democratic Party nominee

Answer 83

James Buchanan

Question 84

Republican party nominee

Answer 84

John C. Freemont

Question 85

The supreme court ruled that slaves were considered

Answer 85

Property

Question 86

The Douglas/Lincoln match up was for

Answer 86

Slavery

Question 87

Fate of John Brown after Harper's Ferry

Answer 87

Arrested and hung

Question 88

Won the election of 1860:

Answer 88

Abraham Lincoln

Question 89

First state to secede from the Union

Answer 89

South Carolina

Question 90

3,000 women served as

Answer 90

Nurses

Question 91

Color of the Union's uniforms

Answer 91

Blue

Question 92

Color of Confederate uniforms

Answer 92

Gray

Question 93

What was odd about the first battle at bull run

Answer 93

Spectators watched it

Question 94

City the Union was trying to capture in the East

Answer 94

Richmond

Question 95

Led the Union army in the West

Answer 95

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 96

Union captured this large city and gateway to the Mississippi

Answer 96

New Orleans

Question 97

People in the North feared slaves would

Answer 97

Take jobs away

Question 98

How did Stonewall Jackson die

Answer 98

Accidentally shot by his own men

Question 99

Main Union general at Gettysburg

Answer 99

General Meade

Question 100

Years of the Civil War

Answer 100

1861-1865